Such a cute book about a tomboyish girl who secretly wishes to be a princess. Her aunt gave a her a baseball mitt signed by a Yankees baseball player and she whispers her wish of being a princess to that mitt. She doesn't know that the mitt grants wishes so after revealing her wish to the mitt she finds herself in the medieval times, and she is the princess. The illustrations are great, it is a very good book to read. ( )

A charming little children's book by a favorite writer of mine, Anna Quindlen. Kate is a tomboyish 4th-grader who occasionally daydreams about being a princess, and this time whispers it into her Eddie Bestelli mitt, a gift from her Aunt Mary. Eddie Bestelli was the batter who hit the home run that won the World Series for the Yankees in 1954, and unbeknown to Kate, the mitt grants wishes whispered to it. So Kate finds herself a princess in medieval times, "rescued" by a show-off glamor-puss prince from several dangers, teaches baseball to the handmaidens, and generally learns that even princesses have to rescue themselves at times. A nice, charming, funny story with many palatable bits of wisdom, and nice drawings by James Stevenson to go along with it. ( )